- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Here is what I think the countdown is. GO here to read my original posting of the theory. But I'll specially tailor it here, so i'm not quite double posting.
First off, it is not a countdown to anything special. ILB is simply Halo 2 background story. You can argue with me on this, but this is what I believe. Don't look for OXM issue tieins, or demo releases or the like. its just more story to go with halo 2 that's nice to know before hand.
With that said, The countdown pertains to an ONI AI that is attempting to escape. It has gone rampact. From marathon, we find there are three stages of rampancy. Melancholia, Anger, and Jealousy.
This countdown gives us four stages. Pre netowkr throttling = Phase 1, Post network Throttlingi = Phase 2, metasizing = Phase 3, and "WIDE AWAKE" = Phase 4.
Phase 1 = melancholia. The MAYDAY messages were teh AI. Its trying to escape, and it has taken over the website. it was sending a message through the pictures. ONI techniciansn sent DANA an email explaining not to close the website, but to let it do its thing. That's b/c the ONI technicans are studying teh AI, trying to "kill it" so to speak, or capture it. That they are scared of what the AI can do is evident. (read the blog to find the email ONI sent dana).
The QUEEN story was written by teh AI. The story, written during Melancholia, is fairly depresssing, but it promises an angry retribution. So now we are in Phase 2, or ANGER. The stalker pictures? i need to read up more to give a good diangosis on what that stuff is. But be prepared for JEALOUSY to come up on Aug 10.
And Aug 24? No freakin release of Halo2. That's when the AI goes beyond rampancy, to WIDE AWAKE. That's when it escapes. And the ONI techs are frantically trying to contain it.
Does that explain what I think the countdown is?